Yeah, I have to say, no matter how good the movie will be, it will never measure up to the book. It can't possibly do so in the two or three hours it will take up. Definitely better to read it than to watch it. I have a feeling they will be leaving out a lot of important stuff from the movie too.

Yeah, it is a graphic novel. By the same guy who did Watchmen and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. About a terrorist-like hero who blows up buildings in a fascist Britain and wears a Guy Fawkes mask.

TheArchitect wrote:Yeah, it is a graphic novel. By the same guy who did Watchmen and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. About a terrorist-like hero who blows up buildings in a fascist Britain and wears a Guy Fawkes mask.

Watchmen was great, in it's own special way.

Duke

"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."

--Mark Twain

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

--Friedrich Nietzsche

"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."

I really don't know about this. Some things work in comics, but they don't translate into films (none of the Batman films came close to "The Dark Knight Returns" even though that was the book that sparked the Batman revival).

V for Vendetta was very much a "Batman vs Big Brother" fantasy. An almost supernaturally enabled human being was able to be anywhere, do whatever he wished, and have access to everything.

It struck me as being naive because it swept under the carpet the implications of V's actions. Utter chaos, total anarchy. What system did V expect to emerge from this - a loving and benevolent society? More likely a splintered feudalist country, or a more vicious version of the previous regime.

That is kind of the point. It is entirely possible that V is completely insane and really is doing nothing that will really help the world. The ramifications of this thing in fact he left to someone else to deal with. Evey deals with everything after V dies, so he doesn't really have to worry about it.